Adding and registering device.



W. H. GOODIN.

ADDING AND REGISTERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1911.

Patented 0013.31, 1911.

WILLIAM H. GOODIN, 0F RENO, NEVADA.

ADDING AND REGISTERING DEVICE.

Application led January 17, 1911.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

Serial No. 603,047.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GooDIN, citizen of the United States, residing at Reno, in the county of Washoe and State of Nevada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adding and Registering Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a counting device, and particularly to an automatic checking counter.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple tool whereby an operator can mark and simultaneously register the number of articles marked.

This invention consists of the parts and the combination and construction of parts hereinafter" 'more fully described and claimed having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the marking counter. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the device. Fig. 3

is a transverse section showing the locking band in the locked position.

It is desirable to provide a tool or device whereby salesmen or other persons having occasion to check off or mark stock, as for instance when an inventory is being taken, may also simultaneously keep an accurate count of the number of articles checked or marked. To this end I provide in combination a suitable marking implement, as a pencil, crayon or equivalentdevice, 2,

adapted to be clamped in a clutchA or grip 3,-

ormed upon a sleeve 4, reciprocably mounted in a handle or casing 5. At the opposite end ofthe casing 5 from that in which the pencil is mounted is attached a suitable counting device, designated generally as at 6, the mechanism of which is adapted to be actuated by the compression of the sleeve 4 within the casing 5. A spring 7 is re-active between the inner end of the pencil carrier 4 and a iiXed abutment member 8 to normally thrust the pencil outwardly until the movement of the sleeve 4 is further prevented by means of a screw, or other suitable device 9, movable in aslot 10 formed in the casing 5.

Manifestly any appropriate form of counter as 6, may be utilized in carrying out my invention, and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to any specially constructed counter mechanism.

The counting mechanism comprises a series of indexed rings 12 revolubly mounted in a chambered cap 13 from which projects a stem 14 on which is mounted a unit ring l2, turnable thereby. Motion is transmit-ted from the unit ring l2 through the remainings rings by pinions 15 loosely mounted on the cap 13 and engaging respective projections 16--17 on adjacent pairs of rings 12. The stem 14 is automatically turned by a ratchet clutch 18 carried thereon and driven by a complementary member 19 secured on a spiral spindle 20 reciprocable in a nut 21 fixed in the sleeve 4.

In operation, when the sleeve /is pushed up, by t-he application of the pencil 2 to a substance, the nut 2l turns the spindle 20 and its clutch member 19, this in turn revolving the member 18 and its associated counting train. When the sleeve 4 moves down under action of spring 7 the clutch members ratchet freely without revolving the stem 14 by which the rings 12 may be reset when desired.

Any appropriate locking device may be employed to prevent the movement of the sleeve 4 when it is desired to use the implement only for marking and as here shown the lock comprises a spring band 22 circumfe-rentially movable over the slot 10 when the-` screw 9 moves down, and when so moved, one of the ends, as 23, of the band, may spring into the slot to temporarily retain the band in this position. When the instrument is to be used`as a counter also, then the band 22 is revolved until a transverse projection 24 forming a passage way for the screw 9 is over the latter, thus permitting this to pass beneath the band when the sleeve moves.

Having thus describedmy invention what "I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isnw 1. An adding and registering device including a register, a cylindrical casing in which the register is iixed, a point or pencilholding member slidably guided within the casing and having a spiral nut in the upper end, a ratchet, one member of which is turnably connected with the register, a spiral pin connected to the other ratchet member and slidable through the nut, a spring by which the point-carrying member is normally extended, and a band turnable about the casing and engageable with the point carrier to lock said point carrier.

2. An adding and registering device including a register, a cylindrical casing in which the register is mounted, having a lon- 'tudinal slot, a pencil-holding member slidably guided within the casing and having connections for actuating the register by its longitudinal movement in the casing, and provided with a guide pin extending eXteriorly through the casing slot, and a band turnable about the casing and having l0 a portion thereof pressed inwardly to eX- my hand in the presence of two subscribing 1E witnesses.

WlILLlAM H. GOODIN. Witnesses:

ROBERT RICHARDS, BENJAMIN CURLER. 

